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Eighteenth-century monastic libraries in southern Germany and Austria : architecture and decorations / Eric Garberson.

Title: Eighteenth-century monastic libraries in southern Germany and Austria : architecture and decorations / Eric Garberson.
Author: Garberson, Eric.
Publication: Baden-Baden : Verlag Valentin Koerner, 1998.

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Description

xi, 226 pages, 34 pages of plates : illustrations, plans; 24 cm

Series Statement

Saecula spiritalia ; v. 37

Uniform Title

Saecula spiritalia ; Bd. 37.

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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Johns Hopkins University, 1990.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-216) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : State of the question ; Definitions and parameters -- 1. Cultural significance of the monastic library : To build or not to build: the debate at Sankt Pölten ; The monastic library as expression of rank and status ; The library and the problematic role of learning in monastic life ; Use of the monastic library -- 2. The building tradition and library theory : The building tradition ; The theoretical and practical literature on libraries ; What's in a name: defining the library ; The wall-system and book classification ; Siting and placement of the library ; Other objects or ornaments of the library -- 3. Building the monastic library : The design and construction process ; Placement of the library ; The library room ; The furnishings ; The ancillary spaces and their furnishings -- 4. Figural decoration of the monastic library : Writing and executing the program ; The sapiential or wisdom tradition ; Library decoration in the literature on libraries ; Traditions of library decoration in German regions to 1700 ; Seventeenth-century Italian library decoration and the figure of divine wisdom ; Common themes in eighteen-century monastic library decoration ; Portraits and portrait cycles ; The parts of learning ; A new balance: the marriage of virtue and learning -- Summary catalogue -- Appendices : Notes on the drawing of the new library building at Sankt Blasien, Vienna, 6 May 1730 -- Letter from Joseph Munggenast to Abbot Paul de Vitsch of Seitenstetten regarding the decoration and furnishings of the library, 1741.

ISBN

3873204371
9783873204379

LCCN

98193338

OCLC

39477528
SCSB-12615161

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